A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-read books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the reader beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler’s take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman’s view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk’s analysis of the West’s history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature.
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The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone
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Golden Age Spain on the Jacobean Stage: John Fletcher’s Reading and Writing of Cervantes & Co.
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Literature, Science and Religion in Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost
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Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, and Other Cr
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Holocaust Literature: An Introduction
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The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry: A Study of Children’s Verse in English
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The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary
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Classical Philosophers on Literature: Plato, Aristotle, Longinus
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William T. Vollmann: Writing America’s Other Histories
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The Purple Decades: A Reader
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Six Metaphysical Poets: A Concise Critical Introduction and Innovative Interdisciplinary Reading of Selected Mystographical Poem
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Male Adolescence in Mid-victorian Fiction: George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope
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Law and the Passions: A Discrete History
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Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800-2000
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Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism: Professional Attention
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Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement: Translation and Transcultural Dialogue
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The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Medieval to 1707
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Starring Charles Dickens: Multi-media ’boz’ and the Culture of Celebrity
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Elizabeth Tanfield Cary’s History of Edward II
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Starring Charles Dickens: Multi-media ’boz’ and the Culture of Celebrity
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